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Your name becomes locked after 200 likes: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=271607792873806 https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=271607792873806 For the usernam

by timdorr 14y ago

Your name becomes locked after 200 likes: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=271607792873806 https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=271607792873806 For the username, everyone (including users) is allowed one name change. Presumably, Facebook can bypass these seemingly arbitrary limitations, but will essentially charge you for the right to do so (by requiring you to have purchased a certain amount of advertising with them).

tptacek 14y ago
This seems pretty reasonable, as the potential for abuse for arbitrary name changes is very high.
- krenel 14y ago
  But at the same time is very normal a change of name, because companies adquires other companies, products can change the name too[1], etc... The Facebook page is supposedly owned by the creator, not Facebook and if a change of the name is needed, IMO it does not make sense to try to charge money from it. I'm with you that F must have some restrictions on name change, but it does not seem reasonable to charge money for it. [1] Imagine a page called "Sun Microsystems - Java" before being buyed by Oracle with a fer thousands fans. I'm sure a hight percent of the fans would not care of have a name change to "Oracle - Java" for example.
pawelwentpawel 14y ago
They said they would allow us to change our name. NICE! But only if we agreed to spend $2000 or more in advertising a month. Well, apparently there is an exception from this rule. Obviously there is a huge potential for abuse when changing name of a page that has plenty of users. However, allowing only the "money making" pages to do so is a bit of an unfair move in my opinion. Reasonable but unfair. I wonder if this situation will escalate and fb will publish some explanation. Nevertheless, it is still hard to believe for me that a company with such value would fake clicks at all or in a way that is easy to detect.

by timdorr 14y ago

tptacek 14y ago

This seems pretty reasonable, as the potential for abuse for arbitrary name changes is very high.

krenel 14y ago
But at the same time is very normal a change of name, because companies adquires other companies, products can change the name too[1], etc... The Facebook page is supposedly owned by the creator, not Facebook and if a change of the name is needed, IMO it does not make sense to try to charge money from it. I'm with you that F must have some restrictions on name change, but it does not seem reasonable to charge money for it. [1] Imagine a page called "Sun Microsystems - Java" before being buyed by Oracle with a fer thousands fans. I'm sure a hight percent of the fans would not care of have a name change to "Oracle - Java" for example.

pawelwentpawel 14y ago

They said they would allow us to change our name. NICE! But only if we agreed to spend $2000 or more in advertising a month. Well, apparently there is an exception from this rule. Obviously there is a huge potential for abuse when changing name of a page that has plenty of users. However, allowing only the "money making" pages to do so is a bit of an unfair move in my opinion. Reasonable but unfair. I wonder if this situation will escalate and fb will publish some explanation. Nevertheless, it is still hard to believe for me that a company with such value would fake clicks at all or in a way that is easy to detect.